I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
TINA FEYIf you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace, here they are. No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly.
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There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
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When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn’t say, “That girl’s pretty. Who is that?
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(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it’s only because I struggle with math.
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In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.
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If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history’s worst decisions […].
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do
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‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say.
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I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria’s Secret. There would be no Dior.
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My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.
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I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them.
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Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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The arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.
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If you ever start to feel good about yourself… …. they have this thing called the internet.
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Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.
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You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘this is impossible – oh,this is impossible’. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.
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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror.
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This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.
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An acting teacher once told me, ‘Greet everything with yes… Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.’
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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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